Stuart Herbert Email & Phone Number

Pontypridd, Gb

South Wales, Uk

Bringing my extensive experience (over 20 years!) of designing, delivering and assuring software projects to the freelance market.Specialising in quality assurance of PHP-based projects using Storyplayer, the open-source test automation tool originally designed to test the world's most successful Big Data reseller's platform.

Book co-author, magazine article author, conference speaker in the UK and US, blogger, community group organiser as a (small) part of the wider PHP user community

Teaching Ng Family Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan through the Vale of Glamorgan's Lifelong Learning (Adult Continuing Education) programme.Involves designing and delivering 30-week beginner and intermediate level courses to individuals and groups of up to 30 adults, and also designing and providing additional teaching material to enable students to continue their progress after completing the course.

Remote

This is a Head-of-Engineering type role, reporting directly to the Director of Technology.Responsible for working practices and outcomes across multiple software engineering teams, working alongside an awesome QA Manager and Ops Manager. Providing technical leadership, mentoring to our teams across all experience levels. A member of the hiring committee. Setup and run our release process.And yes, I do still write and ship code :)Also part of the team responsible for strategic integration w/ the parent company, including co-design of our intra-company API / event solution.VueJS, Laravel, PHP, MariaDB (MySQL), Docker on AWS ECS / Fargate.

Remote

Joined the Xavier team to provide day-to-day technical leadership and mentoring to Xavier's team of PHP developers. As well as designing and shipping code, this role involved working with the management team to introduce engineering standards and ways of working, both for devs themselves and between devs and the business.VueJS, Laravel, PHP, MariaDB (MySQL), Docker on AWS ECS / Fargate.

Reading, Berkshire, Uk

Currently leading platform quality assurance and capacity testing.

Bath, United Kingdom

Head of the Engineering Department, covering hosting, VoIP, project management and internal systems.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Senior developer for Amaxus, Box UK's award-winning content management system. Requirements Analyst and Technical Architect, providing solution consultancy to clients internal and external. Project Manager, delivered the Outdoor Exploration Portal for a major UK government client.

Gentoo developer, taking responsibility for all things web-related, including Apache, PHP, webapp-config, and web-based applications.Founder and lead of the Gentoo Overlays social workspaces programme.Trustee of the Gentoo Foundation, September 2006 - November 2006.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Systems manager for Orange.net

The Internet

Lead maintainer of the Generic NQS open-source project, a batch processing system originally written for NASA in 1985, and originally open-sourced by the Monsanto Company as Monsanto NQS.Work involved resolving existing bugs in NQS, porting to new operating systems (including over 20 variants of UNIX), providing end-user support worldwide via the mailing list.From 1994 to 1996, this work was funded by a grant from the JISC New Technologies Sub-committee (NTSC). From 1996 to 2000, the project was run on a volunteer basis.See http://gnqs.sourceforge.net for more details.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Team leader for In-House Test team for DDS4 drive development

Developer for in-house middleware solution,Consultant on Vodafone's first Java-based project,Mentor for student placement scheme,

Bristol

Software Engineer for a consulting company. Spent most of the time (about 8-9 months I believe - it was a long time ago) on secondment to Eurostar working in London, where responsibilities included software development in C, software configuration management (PVCS, in-house system), server administration and networking (AIX, X.25, SNA) and critical fault patching.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Software developer within Academic Computing Services, primarily working on the JISC NTSC-funded project to maintain and develop NQS.